Category: Adventure

“Are you sure this is a good idea?” My friend asked. “They’re supposed to be smarter than dogs. She’s domesticated,” I replied. The pig looked up at my outstretched palm and let out an ear-piercing squeal. She bared her dark yellow teeth and waited for me...

Two of my friends clung to the side of the swaying boat. They glued their eyes to the horizon, and commanded their stomachs not to hurl. Meanwhile, I sat at the bow sipping a coconut — looking back now and then to see if they’d chummed...

A few months ago, I went on a spontaneous (and hectic) trip to Timor-Leste with a couple of my friends. Truth be told, I probably couldn’t point it out on a blank map and knew nothing of its complex history before my visit. It ended up...

“Before I freedive, I tell my body that it’s time to enter dream time. It’s time to go to sleep,” a freediver in Amed, Bali, told me. “Your entire body and mind relaxes.” After getting finishing my AIDA** Freediving Certification, I started to understand what he meant....

A few months ago, I was researching bikinis for an article on Surfd.com. I’ve only heard great things about Sensi Graves Bikinis and discovered that the brand is led by an adventure-addicted kitesurfer, Sensi. Here is is to tell us all about how she got to...

Every few weeks, I love to feature inspiring travelers, artists, and adventurers for you to follow. This week we have Barbara from Jet-settera, a luxury, adventure, and travel writer with a penchant for climbing tall peaks and spending her time underwater. Hey! Can you tell us...

(This post continues from Part 1 – Trekking Mt. Rinjani: The Start of an Incredible Adventure.) Gus, our guide, gathered everyone around him and debriefed us on what we’d need to do to reach the summit. At 1:30 a.m., we would wake up and have a...

Sweat pooled around my lower back. I took my backpack off and chucked it onto the ground. Dirt clung to the wet fabric, sticking to it like a magnet. I craned my neck towards the tip of the mountain. Porters and their hikers weaved through a...

“I’ve never driven a motorbike before… is it dangerous?” Hannah asked, fully trusting my response. “Well, we’ll go really slow. It’ll be fine.” Nusa Penida is an island off of the coastline of Bali near Nusa Lembongan. When Justine from Travel Lush wrote a post on how...

The amount of activities that are added to the extreme sports list keep growing every year, as athletes get more and more innovative and their craving for adrenaline increases. Just when you think humans couldn’t get any crazier, they do things like invent speedriding or start climbing...

Hey! I'm Chantae. I'm addicted to any sport involving water, even in it's frozen form. I'm on a mission to try every board sport and adventure activity that I can get my hands on. Here you'll find inspiring guides and stories about adventure, action sports, and travel.

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